SSC NEWS An electronic mail newsletter about the Superconducting Super Collider Volume 4 No. 2 February 1993 ____________________________________________________________________________ NEWS ON SSC EDUCATION FRONT Since part of the original mission of the SSCL is to serve as a major resource for education in science and mathematics, two recent developments in this area warrant attention. One is the imminent arrival of Marge Bardeen in the SSC Education Office, where she will take on responsibilites as Deputy Head for planning, development, and evaluation. Marge comes from Fermilab where she served with distinction as manager of its education office. Among other things, she was co-founder of "Friends of Fermilab" which preceded the education office proper there, and was president of both the local school board and of the Board of Trustees of the nearby College of DuPage. Marge is the wife of Bill Bardeen, head of the Theoretical Physics Department at Fermilab, who is also leaving to head the newly forming Theory Department at the SSCL. A second development is the initiation, at the behest of DOE, of what will be the International Science Education Center--an important complex on the main SSC Laboratory campus and a facility for coordinating farflung SSC educational activities. The Center will ultimately contain classrooms and teaching laboratories, facilities for visiting educators, students, and the public, and an education resource center. Its implementation relies on the varied, ongoing educational program in place at the SSCL. The first international program is slated for 1993. The Center will be supported by state and federal agencies and the private sector in the United States, and by appropriate entities abroad. US/RUSSIAN COLLABORATION FORMALLY ENDORSED On January 6, 1993 Secretary of Energy James Watkins signed a government-to-government agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and the Russian Federation's Ministry of Atomic Energy (MINATOM) for a program of collaboration on the SSC. Vladimir Lukin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation, presented the agreement to Admiral Watkins at the signing ceremony. Minister Victor Mikhailov of MINATOM, Watkin's counterpart in Russia, had already signed the treaty in Moscow in December. To facilitate a meaningful cooperation, the DOE and its corresponding agency in the former Soviet Union established a joint working group in 1991, headed by Dr.Wilmot Hess, director of High Energy and Nuclear Physics at DOE, and Dr. Atlant Vassiliev. The group met a number of times, most recently at SLAC last December. Previously, a number of interlaboratory agreements on specific tasks had been signed between the SSCL and eight Russian institutions; these agreements cover the design and construction of both SSC accelerator components and detector components for the SSC experimental program. Thus, in 1992 the Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk and the SSCL concluded agreements for the design, engineering, and construction of, among other things, conventional magnets for the Low Energy Booster, as well as for measurements of photodesorption from a collider vacuum liner configuration. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna recently agreed to design and fabricate a muon barrel iron toroid for the SDC detector. Last month an agreement was signed for the construction of quadrupole magnets for the Medium Energy Booster at the Moscow Radiotechnical Institute. Similar agreements have been reached with the Institute for Nuclear Research in Moscow, the Efremov Research Institute in St. Persburg, the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Katchina, and the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Moscow. Another, perhaps more visible, aspect of U.S./Russian collaboration is the large number of Russian scientists and engineers in residence for varying lengths of time at the SSC Laboratory. One fruit of this collaboration is the significant Russian contribution to the Texas Test Rig, covered in last month's SSC News. SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS IN PIPELINE Following the successful construction and tests of two quadrupole model magnets in the fall of 1992, the Magnet Systems Division had continued the program of short magnet fabrication and testing, and is by now also well advanced in preparation for the full-length magnet program. The two 1.2-meter quadrupole magnet models with a coil aperture of 50 mm were completely designed and tested at the laboratory. Both required only three training quenches before reaching a "plateau" current in excess of 8600 A. The first model, QSE 101, had its first training quench at 7170 A and the second, QSE 102, at a current in excess of 7600 A--both currents well above the design operating current (6700 A). A third model magnet of this type will be tested shortly. A second lot of three model quadrupole magnets will be constructed next. In the meantime, the first model magnet designed and fabricated by the collider quadrupole contractor, Babcock & Wilcox, was successfully tested at the MSD short magnet test facility. The first two full-length magnets being constructed at the SSC are 15-m dipoles (DCA 101 and 102) of the FNAL-ASST design. These magnets will be completed in the summer of 1993 and tested at BNL. A third full-length magnet, QCE 101, the design of which is based on the SSC model quadrupoles mentioned earlier, is also under construction. While this is a magnet for demonstrating magnet design technology features in quadrupoles for the collider interaction and utility regions, the first prototype IR quadrupole, QL9, will be designed in 1993 as well. SSCL's onsite testing capability will take a major step forward in the fall of 1993 when the Magnet Test Lab (MTL) is commissioned. All of the production magnets built in-house, and a fraction of the industrially produced magnets, will eventually be tested in the MTL. As reported in last December's SSC News, a string of magnets (the ASST) has been operational at the N15 site since August of 1992; recently the last of the SSCL dipoles constructed at FNAL was shipped to Dallas for an extension of this string test. The shipment of this magnet from FNAL marks the end of the very successful magnet development program that was undertaken jointly in 1986, by BNL, LBL, FNAL, and the SSCL (then the Central Design Group). The LBL development of quadrupole magnets and, earlier, of superconducting cable, was completed at the end of FY92. The magnet construction program at BNL was completed in FY92; however, BNL will continue to test long magnets for SSCL until the MTL facility is commissioned. DATES TO REMEMBER March 29-31, 1993 SSC Physics Symposium University of Wisconsin, Madison (LDOLAN@WISCPHEN) May 3-5, 1993 First European Workshop on Beam Instrumentation and Diagnostics for Particle Accelerators Montreux, Switzerland (Ch. Parthe, CERN: 0041-22-7674619) May 5-8, 1993 International Industrial Symposium on the Super Collider (IISSC) San Francisco, CA. (P. Patterson: 619-490-0164) May 17-20, 1993 1993 Particle Accelerator Conference Washington, D.C. (A. Quarrie: 804-249-6377) May 31-June 4, 1993 Physics Computing '93 Albuquerque, NM (Executive Secretary, American Physical Society) June 16-18, 1993 XIII Int. Conf. on Physics in Collision Univ. of Heidelberg (Conf. Secretariat: 49-6221-564332) SSCLAB CALENDAR To see a longer list of HEP events, including SSC detector collaboration meetings, log onto SSCVX1 as SSCLAB (no password is required) and select calendar from the menu. Send any comments or items for the calendar to USERSOFFICE@SSCVX1. HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO SSC NEWS Send a one-line mail message to: LISTSERV@UTARLVM1 (that's LISTSERV, not SSCNEWS). The full Internet address is: LISTSERV@UTARLVM1.uta.edu. The message should be similar to the following example: EXAMPLE: SUB SSCNEWS Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (Insert your own name, using Initial Capital letters) LISTSERV will pick up your email address from your message. To unsubscribe, send SIGNOFF SSCNEWS. 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